Drachmas
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
five hundred drachmas · five hundred more · the drachma · the lost coin
spoken of as
1 expressionThe drachma1 mention
De Pudicitia (Latin)
Likewise the parable of the drachma, as provoked from the same matter, we equally interpret of the heathen — even though it is lost in the house, as it were in the Church, even though it is found by the light of a lamp, as it were by the word of God.
in the texts
On the Embassy
Money allegedly promised by Demosthenes for false testimony.
this accomplished, he tried to persuade him to give false testimony against me before you, promising, namely, to give him five hundred drachmas on the spot, if he would consent to come into court and complain of me, and say that I was guilty of drunken abuse of a woman of his family, who had been taken captive;
De Pudicitia
Lost coin of the parable, paired with the lost sheep.
Likewise the parable of the drachma, as provoked from the same matter, we equally interpret of the heathen — even though it is lost in the house, as it were in the Church, even though it is found by the light of a lamp, as it were by the word of God.